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The 1967 Coho Salmon Fishing Disaster [a] refers to a squall over Lake Michigan, off the coast of Michigan in the United States, which occurred on September 23, 1967. Hundreds of small fishing boats were on the lake to take advantage of a coho salmon run. More than 150 boats capsized, seven people died, and 46 people were injured.
Davy Jones' locker is a metaphor for the oceanic abyss, the final resting place of drowned sailors and travellers. It is a euphemism for drowning or shipwrecks in which the sailors' and ships' remains are consigned to the depths of the ocean (to be sent to Davy Jones' Locker).
The USS Michigan led the patrol, mostly singlehandedly, from its beginning on October 1, 1844 until the ship was retired in 1912. Michigan was the only American gunboat to patrol the vast Great Lakes. She was the first steam-powered, iron-hulled warship of the US Navy.
Davy Jones (Pirates of the Caribbean), captain of the Flying Dutchman from the Pirates of the Caribbean film series; Davy Jones, a figure of nautical folklore best known from the idiom "Davy Jones' Locker" Davy Jones, a living wooden whale in John R. Neill's 1942 children's fantasy novel Lucky Bucky in Oz
Davey Jones's Locker, a fictional location in Pirates of the Caribbean, a Disney film series; see List of locations in Pirates of the Caribbean Operation Davy Jones' Locker , a U.S. military operation disposing of captured German chemical weapons after World War II
Pointe Mouillee State Game Area (/ ˈ p ɔɪ n t m w iː ˈ j eɪ /; point mwee-YAY or moo-LAY) is a state game area in the U.S. state of Michigan. [2] It encompasses 7,483 acres (30.3 km 2) of hunting, recreational, and protected wildlife and wetland areas at the mouth of the Huron River at Lake Erie, as well as smaller outlying areas within the Detroit River.
Oct. 24—A police report stemming from an investigation into allegations of hazing at Santa Fe High School earlier this month says a teen boy told police several students had held him down while ...
The Scott Point site is located about 300 to 400 feet (91 to 122 m) inland from a small sandy bay on the shore of Lake Michigan, in Section 8, Township 41 North, Range 11 West. [2] The adjacent shoreline is relatively rocky, making this bay the best canoe landing place in the immediate area.